Sinister: Come and Sit Beside Me in the Dark

[layla]

Dear Sinister,

The first snowfall in Montreal. That particular hush descending on the streets, punctuated by the occasional rumble of a passing municipal truck, by the whine of summer tires struggling to gain a hold on the slippery pavement. I love the city in winter, and it's good to be home after so many years away.

I made a pilgrimage to Glasgow in May. I wandered around the West End looking for Saint Theresa on the hill and was unreasonably excited to happen upon Stow College. I talked to almost no one for five days and walked my way through Belle and Sebastian's complete discography (including EPs and foreign releases, in chronological order by release date). It's a pity that Heaven in the Afternoon didn't bump one of the more lacklustre tracks off The Life Pursuit; I remember exactly where I was when my playlist inevitably went quiet on just that note.

I don't know exactly why I'm writing now, perhaps for the third time only since joining the list five or so years ago. I'm sitting in my unheated living room under a fastidiously framed Fold Your Hands art print; my twenty-fifth birthday is fast approaching. I spend my days listening to fantastic tales and oh so calmly persuading angry people to come inside from the blowing snow, there will be a sandwich, you see, and later a cigarette, and perhaps a little something to help lull to sleep. It's a strange sort of life.

Layla



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